Second Mile founder and former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, and Don Marks arrive at The Second Mile's 19th Annual Art Auction at the Ramada Inn in State College, Pennsylvania in 2008

The mother of Victim 1 in the grand jury report spoke to ABC’s Good Morning America about the Penn State football scandal this morning and her story is absolutely heart-breaking.

She told GMA’s George Stephanopoulos her son called Jerry Sandusky a “weirdo” and asked her son’s school guidance counselors to speak with him. Soon after, her worst fears were confirmed. Jerry Sandusky was believed to have sexually abused her son.

If you haven’t read the grand jury report, Victim No. 1 met Sandusky through the Second Mile charity organization when he was about 11 or 12-years-old. Sandusky would be the boy gifts, take him to church, restaurants, swimming and the boy would spend the night in Sandusky’s basement. No word on where Sandusky’s wife was during these episodes, as an interesting side note.

Sandusky allegedly performed oral sex on the boy and had the boy perform oral sex on him, would kiss him on the mouth among other inappropriate sexual acts. The boy attempted to cut off contact with Sandusky as he entered high school, but the Clinton County high school administrators would allow Sandusky to take the boy out of class for unsupervised visits.

The boy’s mother told ABC’s Good Morning America she was unaware the school was allowing Sandusky access to her son.

Joe Paterno, Tim Curley and other Penn State administrators have been taking the brunt of the criticism in this situation, but let’s not forget other institutions like the high school and Second Mile chartiy program was equally negligent in protecting these boys.

Despite a messy split from ESPN after Hank Williams Jr.’s controversial comments about President Obama where he compared him to Hitler, Williams made an appearance on ABC’s the View Tuesday. ESPN and ABC are both owned by the Walt Disney Company.

“The View” host Barbara Walters made it a point to remind Hank Williams Jr. that her show was owned by Disney after he continued to elaborate on his controversial remarks. Shortly after, Williams said “Disney, ABC and ESPN are kind of like the Spanish-American War, they’re history. You understand that? I’m out of there.”

Williams called Disney’s Mickey a “mean mouse” and turned his back to the audience to point to his New York Yankees Mickey Mantle jersey.

Following that, co-host Joy Behar asked Williams Jr. again if he understood why using Hitler’s name was a bad idea and the audience and viewers got one lucid moment out of an otherwise uncomfortable, jumbled segment.

“Oh yeah. I told you, I’m not smart enough,” said Williams Jr., who reminded the audience that he and his song “Are You Ready for Some Football will be free agents May 1, 2012.

It was a bold move by both camps to entertain Williams on an ABC show. Adding to the uncomfortable segment was the fact that co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s husband, Tim Hasselbeck, is an NFL analyst for ESPN – to which she also reminded Hank Williams Jr. when he threw dogged Mickey Mouse.

ESPN's Chris Fowler (from left), Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit are back for another season of 'College Gameday.' from 2001

ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit has taken a lot of heat, particularly this season, from Ohio State football fans for his critical comments about Ohio State’s football program and coach Jim Tressel. But he was rewarded with his second consecutive Sports Emmy for outstanding Studio Analyst Monday.

ESPN’s College Gameday was also named Outstanding Studio Show.

ESPN finished with five Sports Emmys, trailing HBO and NBC who each tied with seven. ESPN2 also won two Emmys and parent company ABC won three.

No current sports announcer has taken, arguably, more criticism from an institution than Kirk Herbstreit. Herbstreit, a former college quarterback for the Buckeyes, even moved his family from Ohio to Tennessee to flee the “relentless” minority of Ohio State football fans who don’t accept any negative comments about the program from Kirk Herbstreit.

Kirk Herbstreit recently deleted his twitter account saying “I just felt it wasn’t for me as I already have sufficient ways to communicate my thoughts on football,” according to the Tucson Citizen.

Other sports television personalities honored: Bob Costas for Studio Host, Mike “Doc” Emrick for Sports Personality in the Play-By-Play category and Cris Collinsworth won for best Sports Event analyst.

The personality-plus Rex Ryan helped HBO earn three Sports Emmys for their outstanding series Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the New York Jets.

Just when you thought the Jenn Sterger-Brett Favre scandal died, it rises again.

A representative for ABC’s Good Morning America confirmed to USA Today that Jenn Sterger’s interview will air in two segments on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Nightline will also air an interview with Jenn Sterger Tuesday evening according to Fox Sports. Excerpts from the interview have already surfaced on the internet.

”I haven’t made a dime off anything in this whole situation,” said Jenn Sterger, who was a sideline reporter for the New York Jets. ”Not from the pictures. Not from Favre. I never wanted to sue anyone. That was never an intention of mine. I’m not a gold-digger. The only way I wanted to make my money this whole time was to just have a job.”

She also described how the incident started with Brett Favre, a former New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre was ultimately fined $50,000 from the NFL despite being cleared of personal misconduct towards Sterger.

“I was approached one day at the beginning of the preseason games, by a man wearing a Jets badge, employee badge, who asked me, ‘How would you feel if Brett Favre asked for your phone number? What would you say?’ And I just looked at him, my usual smart-ass self. And I said, ‘I’d say I like my job an awful lot. And I’ve been told I look remarkably like his wife.’”

Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers poses for his 2009 NFL headshot at photo day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by NFL Photos)

Hines Ward is continuing the trend of successful NFL players on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. The Pittsburgh Steelers receiver is currently in second place after Week 2 of DWTS completing two solid dances, the cha cha and quickstep.

The original Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio and partner Karina Smirnoff are in first place with 45 points, Hines Ward is in second with 44 and WWF wrestling star Chris Jericho is in third with 42 points. In fourth place is…

Tiger Woods of the USA and the Albany Club on the 3rd hole during the second day of the 2011 Tavistock Cup at Isleworth Golf and Country Club on March 15, 2011 in Windermere, Florida. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)

Fatherhood seems to be the popular topic in the sports world this week and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Earlier this week, Dwyane Wade spoke about his relief about getting custody of his two young sons. Now, Tiger Woods his sharing his experiences about life as a single dad with Good Morning America on ABC.

As usual, the guys didn’t hold back. Jackson said he understood Stan Van Gundy was protecting his star player, but went overboard with the criticism.

Jeff Van Gundy, brother to Stan Van Gundy, took an emotionally neutral stance for the most part pointing to the discrepancy between the number of flagrant fouls Dwight Howard has called for him versus how many times he’s fouled during the NBA season.

“Well, I thought Stan’s comments were snarky and I was surprised by what I thought were unbecoming comments by Commissioner Stern,” Jeff Van Gundy said. “But I think the comments obscure the big fact. The big fact, to me, is is Dwight Howard being officiated correctly?”

“Up until a couple of days ago there’s been 88 flagrant fouls called in the NBA this season drawn by 67 players. Dwight Howard is the most fouled player in the league and has had not one flagrant foul committed against him. Blake Griffin leads the league, he’s had eight called for him. Going back the last flagrant foul called against Dwight Howard was a year, 81 games, almost 3,000 minutes. I would suspect he’s been fouled a thousand time in those times. Are we to say that this this guy who has been fouled the most has never had a flagrant foul called, a thousand fouls? If I was the NBA, I would forget about the comments and I would look to is there a point the Magic are making that’s correct.”

But the conversation took a comical turn after Lisa Salters gave her sideline report about Otis Smith confirming team management spoke with Stan Van Gundy’s public outlash against the commissioner.

In case you don’t recall, David Stern’s response to Stan Van Gundy, his quote is as follows; “I see somebody whose team isn’t performing, whose star players is suspended, who seems to be fraying. Whatever the pressures are that Stan is feeling…it made me sad. I would render a guess…that we won’t be hearing from him the rest of the season. When he stops and reads what he said and realizes what he did, he will say no more.”

Tom Brady speaks to the media in front of his locker in 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

There is a pop culture myth that most football players are natural dancers which, of course, was enhanced by Jerry Rice and Emmit Smith’s appearances on ABC’s hit reality contest show, Dancing with the Stars.

Tom Brady, his ponytail and his wife Gisele have been in Rio to unwind for fun times at Carnival. A local television station there got a short clip of Brady’s dancing skills. Let’s just say it makes his cat-like reflexes on the gridiron even more impressive. (Thanks for the tip biglead.com)

The Dancing with the Stars 2011 cast has been revealed and as expected a handful of sports figures will make a run at the crystal ball. This year’s sports stars include Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward, WWE star Chris Jericho, retired boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard and former USC college basketball player “Romeo.”

Karate Kid actor Ralph Macchio and the wife of NFL receiver Hank Baskett, Kendra Wilkinson round out the pseudo sports celebs. On a completely unrelated side note, I’ll be interested to see how a family television show plans to portray Kendra Wilkinson’s Playboy background.

ABC’s DWTS has become a favorite side competitive hobby for athletes, but wearing bedazzled pant suits begs one question. If you are Hines Ward, have you lost your cool card?